Christians - Are you saying that in you lived in the times of the OT, you would follow OT rules?

Many Christians dismiss the OT as they say it was rules for a different time and people (Even though the 10 commandments are in the OT). OT = Old Testament(as some seem not to know this)
Is they any Christian that would admit that they would follow God's rules if they lived in the times of the OT?
Would... show more Many Christians dismiss the OT as they say it was rules for a different time and people (Even though the 10 commandments are in the OT). OT = Old Testament(as some seem not to know this)

Is they any Christian that would admit that they would follow God's rules if they lived in the times of the OT?

Would you stone gays, non Christians, people who work on the Sabbath and rape victims if you lived in these times?

Or would you tell your God he is wrong to instruct these things even in these times?

Remember you are killing these people just because who they are, not because they are hurting anyone.

Bible verses(as I know if I don't include them some will deny these exist):
Dt.13:6-10 (non Christian)
Lev.20:13 (homosexuals)
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 (rape victims)
Numbers 15:32-56 (working on the Sabbath)

Update: @@insertcoolname - thought I said different time and PEOPLE? Would you stone innocent people is the question if placed in this situation?

Answers

Best Answer: Excellent question. Wether one wants to deny the text or not, the FACT of the matter is that that the OT contains inhumane laws such as stoning your insubordinate child.

("If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother ... Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city ... And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. Deuteronomy 21:18-21)

In Addition to this brutality, the OT contains numerous passages that show god ordering rape.

(But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves" (Numbers 31: 18)

There are many more quotes i could mention. I have noticed two types of responses in the answers offered to you, firstly, some xtians simply deny that the OT contains hideous atrocities against humanity (which is why i included the quotes). The second type of response goes something like this, "it was a different time and nobody followed all the rules"... Well this may be true. However, it seems apparent that these laws were perceived as inhumane even in this "oh so different time, (were children needed to be publicly tortured for being rude). This is probably the reason why people did not adhere to the rules. I was under the impression that religion was meant to be a moral compass, what kind of a god would create such horrific laws. So horrific in fact that his own chosen people felt they could not even abide by them (then or now), So horrific, that he had to send his own son to be tortured to death in order to abolish them. This Morbid belief system can't possibly have a positive effect on anybodies psychology. I only hope that we can soon confine these nonsensical stories within the realms of mythology were they belong.

this is why I'm not a christian anymore. When I bring this up to people that say they can save me they usually say "that's in the Bible?" lol How in the world can you save somebody with "The Word" when you don't even know what's in it? Also every christian I know just makes their own rules anyways. Homosexuality, sex before marriage, drunkenness, one night stands, sodomy, all these things clearly go against the bible's teachings. But if they just can't resist one of those things then they just make excuses about how that part of the bible is wrong.... even though its the word of god..? lol Why do you need a book to tell you how to live... especially if you don't even agree with your own holy book? lol I guess if they really were following the "good book" then they would have to stone everyone in the world to death and then after everybody was dead they would have stone themselves to death. Speaking of which I know allot of christians with suicidal thoughts and attempts. I used to be one myself. I'm trying to help one right now. "I'm saved by the grace of god and I hate myself and wanna die." it's the most ironic thing in the world.

Deuteronomy 22:23-24 does not specifically advocate stoning rape victims. The two verses you cite say that if a woman is engaged, and then she lays with another man in the city and does not cry for help, then both the man and woman should be stoned. Verses 25-26 clarify that if a woman is raped by a man in the country, then only the man is to be put to death.

Deuteronomy 13:6-10 says that if someone who is close to you entices you to worship a pagan god, then that person should be put to death.

The OT laws were to show everyone is a sinner. It is impossible to keep it all. Nobody can.

Jesus is God and the only way into heaven.

John 14:6

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Everyone has the chance to get saved and everyone needs saved so get saved now. =)

Romans 10:13

"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Please pray a sincere prayer with all of your heart admitting to Jesus you are a sinner. Have full faith that His blood pays off all of your sins and accept His gift of everlasting life. I pray that God blesses you with peace. Amen.

I love this. You ask fair, logical questions about consistency and continuity of religious beliefs, and they answer with pretty much anything but. OF COURSE they would abide by OT if that was "their religion" of that time period. They would conform to murder in that pre-scientific age. Maybe we all would.

What is religiously fashionable "to God" is completely predicated on what is rationally fashionable to Man.

The christian of today is still the christian of the Dark Ages, I always say.

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If you grew up a german boy during Nazi times you most likely would end up being a Nazi. You can't say you would just "know" that you would have the same views on life you do now